What Sherlock Holmes Can Teach Us About Decision Making - Maria Konnikova

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Maria Konnikova reveals how Sherlock Holmes can teach us to optimise not only our own everyday existence, but our broader contributions to society and the lives of those around us.
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@dafunk666 10 лет назад

I applaud people who do talks to big audiences when you can tell they're quite nervous. It's a difficult thing to do and it shows courage.

@Beccies 10 лет назад

I couldn't tell she was more nervous than the average person. She was pretty calm looking

@mikepublic111 6 лет назад

I like her talks. She's calm and measured.

@JMO777X 11 лет назад

I think she brings up a lot of interesting concepts and love how she uses a creative theme as the medium for her research. Good application of synergy between creativity and analytical conclusions.

@pheonixnighthawk 11 лет назад

She isn't implying you can become like a fictional Holmes. She is explaining that it should be possible to actively adjust the way you think about and perceive the world. You have already showed an inflexibility in your thinking if you dismiss her analogy simply on the basis of it being a fictional example. This is an excellent presentation.

@CC3GROUNDZERO 11 лет назад

Slavoj Zizek frequently mentions the "dog in the night time" story in his lectures. Now I understand his appreciation for Sherlock Holmes much better.

@WeThinkWereFree 11 лет назад

Lovely talk. I am a massive Holmes fan from early childhood to today. I can remember feeling a deep connection to these characters for exactly the reasons she elucidates. Doyle constructed a remarkably complete psychological landscape.

@janovesakkestad7097 8 лет назад

Powerful stuff every time you recal a memory you change that memory. I love it.

@LasVegasSand_s 3 года назад

So crucial

@keysNclocks 11 лет назад

I fricken love this woman

@misterholmes221 2 года назад

Me too

@michaelowens5394 2 года назад

Thanks for this! Fun to hear all these quotes I grew up with integrated into a coherent presentation. Just one caveat: at 17:09, "game" doesn't mean "entertaining pastime", it means "wild animals hunted for food or sport." Holmes is not saying "It's time to play the game", he's saying "Our quarry is on the run." Otherwise, nicely done.

@ipman3564 7 лет назад

Thank you Maria....Great speech!

@esseserve 11 лет назад

It's impressive the way she rarely stutter or stops while talking.

@odalesaylor 9 лет назад

Interesting. It seems as though we cannot be like Sherlock Holmes. But, remember, it is not impossible. So just maybe, we can!

@jayjoshi64 3 года назад

Each slide in the presentation had so many new learnings to offer. I was surprised about each fact she shared. I am a big fan of Sherlock Holmes and wanted to understand his thinking methods. This 1 video covered so many things. Thank you so much.!

@zadeh79 6 лет назад

Inventing viable explanations of things, is the stuff of genius. Intuition/default network is what we owe most of that to. Overconfidence can be wrong at times, but it's supposed to be - the point is the default network allows us to cycle through the different possibilities, until under analysis/evaluation, something is consistent. Intuition is wrong a lot, because that's the beauty of how it works.

@rajendrarajasingam6310 9 лет назад

Very realistic and practical.Fruitful lesson to learn !

@bobalbury4969 11 лет назад

I appreciate what you have shared. I found it interesting, profound, and useful. Thank you.

@Dixavd 11 лет назад

That always stuck out to me. Great talk, thanks for reminding me of these skills.

@jessz4835 11 лет назад

fantastic presentation!! :D

@GuitarHeroPhenomSux 11 лет назад

I've always been curious from childhood. Google is the most exhausted tool I use. I think alot of the memories I have are inadvertent though. I never actually "force" myself to remember anything, it just happens. I loved this video, and all the allusions she drew to Sherlock with science. He's always been one of my favorite fictional characters for his powers of deduction.

@glennrudzik1007 6 лет назад

Awesome vid Maria, I love how you used Sherlock in your presentation! It was awesome and very interesting not elementary! Lol, great job!

@jideomololu6089 10 лет назад

Great analogy!

@humanenergyfield 11 лет назад

Great presentation!

@elultimopujilense 11 лет назад

I can listen to this woman all day long... She is intelligent, she is pretty, she got an angels voice... she is perfect!

@resal13 11 лет назад

So this is a good presentation!

@martin34cool 11 лет назад

I find this to be quite interesting and a nice example, easy to visualize, easier to remember.

@Kirit3 11 лет назад

A girlfriend of mine (who is quite a beauty) once told me that whenever she makes a presentation about anything, the most common comment she gets it about her looks or how people weren't listening because she's too beautiful. Seems like some things never change haha. With that said once she talked about multitasking. I stopped what I was doing and really concentrated on her lecture instead. I hope I can develop a good habit.

@trackerbuckmann1111 11 лет назад

this book is amazing. i love it.

@ramjamflimflam 11 лет назад

That was excellent

@asimic11 11 лет назад

great presentation, and interesting links

@UniversalPotentate 11 лет назад

This is really good stuff to keep in mind! ;)

@travisturner9930 11 лет назад

Interesting video!

@Dowlphin 11 лет назад

Nevetheless, she's right about a lot of stuff. Very good video.

@shamyadav9878 3 года назад

Great video

@TheKibeer 11 лет назад

It was very nice presentation. She was a little nervous but it did not hold her back. Bravo. I think she would be surprised what Eckhart Tolle or rather Zen has to say about creativity and our mind, inner dialogue etc.

@Buho01extremist 11 лет назад

When i was a child i dident have my father in my home, and the thing that teach me how to look to the world was my books of sherlock holmes, when i feel down i just read some pages of any storys of him and open my mind to the what realy is in reality and what is inside my head. thx for this video :D Sorry for my bad english

@barnesconti 11 лет назад

What a great video. It is so much fun to relate our favorite fictional characters to our everyday lives. Kim Barnes will be speaking about Nancy Drew As An Internal Consultant at the Training 2013 Conference & Expo.

@timduncankobebryant 11 лет назад

This is an impressive talk.

@SourcesAreEverything 11 лет назад

The transfer of encoded experiences from episodic memory to reflexive motor rehearsal is exactly the process I will be neuroimaging in an upcoming experiment on the musician brain. Personally, I'm enthralled to live in an era where empirical science can finally accept the challenge of understanding human creativity and subjective experience.

@DoRayMeFa 11 лет назад

Excellent! Thought provoking. The first part of the video -- especially on the benefits of five minutes of quiet contemplation or a twenty minute walk -- reminded me of Susan Cain's "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking". The second half of the video -- esp. the accountant story -- reminded me of Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow." Both are good reads, though Kahneman's is longer and a bit dry for the layman.

@Katyna780 11 лет назад

Years ago, while fresh in from college, I read Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. It got me fascinated. I wanted to be like him so I thought on observe the character, its traits and identify patterns of his thinking process; so ended up writing thinking patterns on cards, rules to be exercised on myself to become like Sherlock by habit out of exercising... ideas like: "be in the moment", "always expect the unexpected", "think of an extra possibility even with all seems to make sense" and so on...

@der_photonist 3 года назад

Do you have the cards? I'm curious here...

@TonySinyaev 4 года назад

Great speech

@sofiabuokay3822 10 лет назад

i feel like she's gonna start crying anytime...

@B26364 11 лет назад

Well done

@maswinkels Год назад

A Holmesian fallacy (also Sherlock Holmes fallacy or process of elimination fallacy) is a logical fallacy that occurs when some explanation is believed to be true on the basis that alternate explanations are impossible, yet not all alternate explanations have been ruled out. The fallacy is an appeal to omniscience and an informal fallacy.

@brostepisthebest 11 лет назад

i like her

@magzz86 11 лет назад

thank u .. :)

@dornelli1 9 лет назад

14:58 one of the most important things i´ve heard so far

@SIMKINETICS 11 лет назад

I've been a scientist, and was an engineer for decades. Although I was predisposed from an early age towards science, actual scientific training left an indelible impression on my life that I'm certain had a very positive effect beyond a rewarding career. I thrive on knowledge, and pay attention to the real world (including my senses). Presence is my reward.

@optmanii 11 лет назад

the innovation thinking is to see not just what is there, but what isn't there.

@mbgzster 11 лет назад

Ay!!! Si aprendiéramos a aplicarlo!!!!

@moonshine1517 6 лет назад

this is useful

@SaniSensei 11 лет назад

5:50 It's funny how she says the guy on the bike is not really multitasking, but switching rapidly back and forth between tasks... when the term multitasking actually derives from the technical term, that's used to describe operating systems that do exactly that: switch rapidly back and forth between tasks... (nowadays we have of course real concurrency with all the multi cores)

@vroomfondel4040 11 лет назад

I'm glad you understand me. Irony is what I was going for. Cheers!

@MissLoly112 11 лет назад

I was clapping at the end. Very intriguing, thank you. And you are very pretty :-)

@loxum 11 лет назад

that's easy - the 2nd one contains two conditions (linked by an and - so both has to be true)

@Sammysapphira 11 лет назад

"Multitasking doesn't exist, you're just switching attention." Bullshit. I was paying attention to the game I was playing and listening/learning from this at the exact same time whilst talking to a friend.

@Atombender 6 лет назад

13:33 isn't that basically a variant of Occam's Razor?

@AbleNightRd02 11 лет назад

saw that too

@trick384 11 лет назад

she is arousing me in more than one way

@dariushmatin6612 10 лет назад

عالی بود ممنون

@trackerbuckmann1111 11 лет назад

Mastermind is by far one of the best books i have ever read. Hands down.

@kyraocity 7 лет назад

7:35 happy people see more of the world.

@esseserve 11 лет назад

Basically what you are saying is that a person has a low probability of doing two things then to do just one. I think that doesn't follow since it's less possible to some one to do nothing, and it's also not likely to a person to do just one thing the entire time, I belive being an accounting and playing jazz for hobbie is much more likely to be true, since it's odd to be an accountant and only.

@warriorfire8103 11 лет назад

I thought the same thing but I assume she's referring to sitting alone quietly, though not necessarily meditating just relaxing and letting your mind go.

@kokabversion2009 11 лет назад

I realize I'm jumping in the middle of other people's discussion, but I couldn't resist! Sorry... A fictional character is the product of mind, in this case we can go one step back to the creator of Sherlock. Doyle perfected the character to entertain but in reality he himself shows the observing logical mind that we all want. If you take the plots, story lines and of course the exaggerations out of Holmes you can still see the points this speech made. Its only more interesting this way.

@Dixavd 11 лет назад

Overconfidence is the key to hold back. I read a story with a Holmes-like figure who constantly analysed. Then he met someone who in a fit of rage analysed someone to the point of using their statistical ideas as fact: "I know people like you, you wear shirts to get noticed-you betend to stop smoking just so you don't have to stand outside with your alone thoughts!" Then the main character turns and says "if you were really mindful, you'd see that statistics show nothing on an individual".

@esseserve 11 лет назад

5:18 ooh so cute

@contrastprinciple4389 7 лет назад

Thank you google for recommending this.

@j9488 2 года назад

Whats interesting is that a created fictional character is the subject of more study then his creator. It takes a true genius to create such a character as Sherlock Holmes. I want more study into the mind of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

@userasdf 11 лет назад

agreed. Wish she'd smile more. Sure she has a great smile :)

@hanchengwu6062 10 лет назад

How is her book? Any good?

@ashoksamrat5135 11 лет назад

at 6:35 wat's the brain exercise she was xactly talking about ? didnt get her. reply pls...thnq.

@Dumass88 7 лет назад

i always ask why, havn't changed since i was a kid. i'm a mindful master?

@Dowlphin 11 лет назад

'Today we do this, people do that' - that's conditioning the mind for problem-perception mode. Instead, she should merely adress suggestions for those people who do, not assume it's 'everywhere'. Furthermore: 'Multitasking is a misnomer - there is no multitasking - we merely switch quickly between tasks'. This is indicating overthinking and putting too much value into words and definitions. Nothing is perfect, but the term "multitasking" is not 'wrong' - it serves its purpose.

@ben-lucky 11 лет назад

I think what she wore was fine. The content in her speech was by far intriguing enough that I didn't find her attire distracting. And she can wear whatever she wants..

@CaioPhox 11 лет назад

I've seen this on Big Think...

@drakezen 11 лет назад

It started with Hello..

@heymelon 11 лет назад

Yes. I found it quite hilarious in contrast to your long an passionate comment about irrelevant things.

@recalibration 11 лет назад

Did it matter that my first thought was to ask if the phone had an SD card slot? Fixed storage is such a limiation.

@sunilsai6271 10 лет назад

Excellent Video, Thanks for Sharing I was not able to take decision, but now with the help of “right decisions” Mobile app by Hanumappa. Decision making has become fun and easy for me.

@Ohfishyfishyfish 11 лет назад

I'm playing football manager while she says all of this.

@VirpratapVS 11 лет назад

Well, I guess it makes more sense to refer to Holmes and Watson because they are different from each other. If she referred to Doyle and the characters that he created, it'd make her talk much more confusing...

@kit93 9 лет назад

i'd like to see something on what holmes can teach us about interviewing techniques and assessment because he's super good at those too

@tushnim_5996 8 лет назад

I'm pretty late but I've been looking up neurophysiology. so if you ask the person to narrate the alibi/story backwards, as they'll have to process a story and then play it backwards.

@kit93 8 лет назад

but holmes always asks them to narrate the story forwards... probing with comments like "what happened next" and "prey continue..." but then again, since people are coming to him for help, he hardly needs to analyze their truthfulness...

@elultimopujilense 11 лет назад

what did he said

@diemdinh73 8 лет назад

ONE QUESTION: How do you make the materials you are learning fun?

@SilentDrex 8 лет назад

In my case, I prayed to God for exactly that! And guess what? here I am.... a couple of years back, I watched an average of 2 movies and lots of series' episodes daily. But now, after my prayer was answered, I am down to less than 1 movie per week. What am I doing with the time I gained? I am here on RU-vid watching videos like this one, and Semantic Web 101. :-)

@MedievalDragoon 11 лет назад

I guess I'm ahead of the crowd, I do this stuff on a regular basis.

@johnrongaming 11 лет назад

i love her voice... it helps me sleep... is that odd?

@gotama570 2 года назад

I had made a decision... Give me a reward it was hard

@janovesakkestad7097 8 лет назад

What?Why?How?

@cyd9872 4 года назад

She looks like Molly from BBC Sherlock

@RDF2552 11 лет назад

Yes and no. I'd wanna avoid judging people based on experience, on stereotypes, and generally also on appearance, but only to a certain degree - everybody who has something important to say should think of a way of presenting it, which makes it seem relevant, as well. She did not quite cross that line, in my opinion, and I have had similar thoughts with the Sherlock Holmes example in mind before.

@DerekDeMuth 11 лет назад

I find that my best ideas come after 3 bowls as well

@flyingdragons 9 лет назад

For some reason, I feel nervous listening to this talk.

@mrKreuzfeld 11 лет назад

lol, I looked at the phones, and automaticly thought phone A was lighter, so I chose A

@Tina2aT 7 лет назад

I'm a fan of Sherlock and I like the videos that I've seen of Konnikova but felt that this lecture was weak.

@rsdialymaker 11 лет назад

It's ironic that shes talking to about how multitasking isnt as beneficial and the dude at 09:47 its texting -.-...

@SherwinJTB 11 лет назад

That was a good fictional story turned non-fiction.

@knick0312 11 лет назад

I think she has :)

@xSilverPhinxx 11 лет назад

If the probability of him playing jazz for a hobby is already low on its own then it would be even lower for someone to be 'whatever' (which has a probabilistic value to it too) and play jazz for a hobby.

@esseserve 11 лет назад

why can't bill play jazz for hobbie and also being an accountant ?